John N. Mitchell

The poem “Night Sounds”, by Carolyn Kizer is a confessional poem. The narrator in the poem is a woman. She is speaking to a departed husband or lover. Night Sounds is about a woman baring her soul to a departed husband or lover. The woman explains the terror that envelopes her throughout the night. The woman states that even in good times her lover was withholding something. She reminisced about the good times. Now when she calls out in fear there’s no answer, and she hears nothing but distant…

The 2 literary devices that Joy Kogawa used the most effectively in this passage are similes and imagery. You can see the importance of imagery in passage, where Naomi is describing how rough life is in their chicken coop “house.” Especially in the sentence ”the water spills down your boots and your feet are red and itchy for days.” This particular sentence is so important because it appeals to two of your senses, sight and touch. You also see the use of similes in the passage, “my black head a…

narrator’s view of the color, physical characteristics, and her imprisonment leads her to insanity. The narrators first notices the color of the wallpaper and finds it “repellant and almost revolting” The color grabs the narrator’s attention, when John loses his attention towards her. The early stage of noticing the wallpaper and making her focus increase more, the narrator still holds her sanity to the reader. The color of the wallpaper suddenly starts to show human characteristics to the…

The person who arranged Battle Hymn of The Republic is Mark Hayes. The person who created the song and the notes for the whole song of the Battle of Hymn of the republic except for arranging it, her name is Julia Ward Howe. She was born May 27, 1819. She died around 1910 from Pneumonia, at she portsmouth home, Oak Glen at the age of 91. She was buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in ambridge, Massachusetts. Julia Ward Howe was born in New York City, NY. Howe is known for writing the lyrics to…

by the time the short story ended because she was chronically depressed. During the time that the story took place, women had no say and they weren't well taken care of. They were seen more as children rather than as older individuals. In this case, John, the main characters’ husband, diagnosed her wrong. He diagnosed her with “nervous depression” and that’s not what she had at all (Perkins Stetson 548). She went along with the treatment her husband recommended because she couldn’t say anything…

Most singer/ songwriters find inspiration to write a new song in the strangest places. It is no different with Michael Jackson’s hit Smooth Criminal. Michael found his inspiration for this song at a C.P.R. class where they addressed the C.P.R. doll as Annie. They were told to ask the doll, “Annie, are you okay?” as part of the class. Michael had originally planned the song and music video to have a western theme in 1984, but scrapped the idea and changed it to, a quote on quote, “gangster…

The memoir Buck: A Memoir is a coming of age book written by the Zimbabwe born man, MK Asante. The setting of the first 12 chapters of the book is a community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or otherwise known as "Killadelphia, Pistolvania," where young MK was raised after leaving his birthplace in Zimbabwe. During this point in his life, MK faces many obstacles academically and in his family life, which his decisions can be a direct result of. The downwards spiral of his home situation…

After reading The Yellow Wallpaper and the narrator’s description of her final day in the house, I viewed her conclusion as more of a tragedy, but also a kind of triumph over John and Jenny. In the beginning of the story, the narrator and her husband visit a mansion for the summer. She finds it unusual that they are able to afford a fancy place like this (Levine 486). Meanwhile, the narrator mentions that she believes she is sick and with her husband being a physician, she tells him how she is…

The squinted eyes gawked at me through the thick shrubs. In a flash of shock and terror, I swiftly turned around, only to be greeted with the rough surface of a pine tree. I had nowhere to go. In the grip of panic, fear shivered down my spine as my heart began to beat wildly. I have lost any sense of my surrounding as all the tension flooded my mind, turning my brain into a mental soup of conflicting instructions. Dread creeped down my spine like an ominous spider leaving a trail of silk. I feel…

The second half of the cinema veriteﹶ TheWrong Man (1956) slides from Manny’s (Henry Fonda) physical enclosure to the world of mental enclosure of his wife Rose (Vera Miles), whose paranoia results in her total emotional collapse. This happens after attorney O’Connor (Anthony Quayle) is hired. The tone grows bleaker in the film’s second half. In order to testify on his behalf Manny and Rose travel to find the witness either dead or relocated. Steeped in despair she finally becomes unstable…